🥕Why Every College Motivation Video Isn't Working
You've watched tens of videos on college motivation for studying, doing homework, internship applications, talking to new people, and building good habits. Maybe you've even applied books like Atomic Habits, Dopamine Nation, and Indistractable. But none of them seem to solve your motivation challenges long term.
That's because all these resources have one issue in common: They don't emphasize motivation is a myth.
Finding motivation through changing your external environment will never solve your motivation challenge long term. Motivation isn't an external challenge, it's an internal one. Every external thing is founded in your internal relationship to it. The problem with the previous motivation resources is they all ask how you create motivation? The real question you should be asking is how you become a student who is motivated by X?
Why listen to me?
For the last six months I’ve worked with the “#1” Gamification Company in the world, The Octalysis Group. We take the principles of human motivation and apply them to make important things more enjoyable and enjoyable things more productive. Over the last ten years we’ve impacted over 1 billion user experiences and worked with 150 companies including LEGO, Microsoft E-Learning, and SplashLearn. Our framework, The Octalysis framework has over 3,000 citations on Google Scholar.
On top of this I’ve been creating content on motivation and gamification for over six years, four of which were spent at Ivy League University Cornell. So I have a lot of knowledge over what the motivation challenges are at Elite Colleges.
In this video you’re going to learn motivation insights you haven’t been told anywhere else. This advice that will:
- Create lasting motivational change for studying, homework, internship applications, talking to new people, building good habits, and more.
- Help you become a general specialist in the age of AI
- Make college feel like the most fun game imaginable
- Build your critical thinking skills
- Profoundly change your relationship with accomplishment
- Motivate you intrinsically for the spiritual path
Let's start by exploring what it means to see motivation as identity change, and then the concrete actionable ways you can become more motivated through The Octalysis Framework.
Check out the short 30 minute version of these motivation insights above. Alternatively, you can skip straight to the more in depth, insightful, motivation video below.
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